A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Salinas in Ecuador. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000qw1p. Unique identifier: us7000qw1p. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude -81.0175 West, latitude -1.8288 South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 13/09/25 / 2025-09-13 21:18:36 / September 13, 2025 @ 9:18 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 21:18:36 / 9:18 pm (local time epicenter).
Close country/countries, Ecuador (c. 14 791 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Sucre, Pedro Carbo, Jipijapa. Epicenter of the event was 46 km (29 miles) from La Libertad (c. 75 900 pop), 44 km (27 miles) from Salinas (c. 43 900 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Santa Elena (c. 42 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Jipijapa (c. 35 900 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Pedro Carbo (c. 23 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Sucre (c. 15 300 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 43 km N of Salinas, Ecuador. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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